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Friday, November 9, 2007

What Google Java engineers do while... waiting... for IntelliJ to unhose itself...

This discussion happened on our internal Java mailing list.

Dan: "What libraries do people use for generating PDFs from java?"

Tim: "I used iText. It works pretty well."Fernando: "+1 for iText."Steve: "Ditto"Joseph: "we are using itext..."Mike: "Calendar uses iText..."Isaac: "+1 for iText on (Google Spreadsheets)"

Me: "Did six Googlers just AGREE on something in a company-wide mailing list thread?? Did that really just happen?? My God, there really is a first time for everything."

Mike: "I disagree. This assumes that time runs in a single direction. If it doesn't, then if an event occurs more than once then the first time could be called the last time and vice versa so neither can be reliably called a first time."

Me: "I've now gained a new appreciation for the complexity of the problems you folks on the Calendar team have to contend with. Clearly we're moving beyond i18n to i19n: interuniversalization!"

Mike: "Yep. We have an implemention of scheduling in multiple time dimensions ready to go and Jeff allocated a pocket universe for testing but production doesn't want to set up a datacenter there."

Kathrin: "Can't you test in a parallel universe where production has agreed to set up your datacenter?"

@paulo: you can use iText to extract the content stream of a page and then parse the PDF syntax to extract text, but that's not for the faint of heart.In general we advise using PdfBox, even on our own iText mailing list and in the iText book. If you don't mind paying for such a tool, there's also PdfLib's Text Extraction Toolkit.

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